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Browsing Research Articles (Centre for Human Rights) by Type "Article"
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Abebe, Adem Kassie
(The American Society of Comparative Law, 2012)
This Article analyzes the extent to which some of the highest
courts in Africa have tackled the potential conflict between the power
of judicial review on the one hand, and public opinion on the other, by
looking at two ...
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Ngwena, Charles G.
(Juta Law, 2013)
Each year, unsafe abortion causes the death of thousands of women, rendering them seriously ill and disabling many more in the African region. Highly restrictive abortion law is a major causative factor. Among United Nations ...
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Killander, Magnus; Nyathi, Mkhululi
(Institute for Foreign and Comparative Law, 2015)
It is estimated that between 10 000 and 20 000 civilians were killed by state
and state sponsored agents between 1982 and 1988 in Zimbabwe. In
addition to murder, there were widespread torture, rape and other sexual
offences, ...
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Kamga, Serges Djoyou; Fombad, Charles Manga
(Africa Institute of South Africa, 2017-12)
This article aims to assess the possible options and prospects for actualising the right to
development (RTD) in Africa. Mindful of the controversy surrounding the legal status of the RTD,
the article starts by problematising ...
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Amusan, Lere; Jegede, Ademola Oluborode
(LLC “СPС “Business Perspectives”, 2014)
Mass migration as a way of adapting to climate change impact is not new. However, the total migration of a permanent
population from a defined territory as a coping response to the impact of climate change is only emerging. ...
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Ebobrah, Solomon Tamarabrakemi
(Malawi Law Society, 2009)
The inauguration of the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights in
2006 heralded a new phase in trans-national judicial implementation of
human rights in Africa, but it also brought new legal challenges with it. ...
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Kangaude, Godfrey Dalitso; Coast, Ernestina; Fetters, Tamara
(Taylor & Francis, 2020)
Universal Health Coverage (UHC) forces governments to consider not only how services will be
provided – but which services – and to whom, when, where, how and at what cost. This paper considers the
implications for ...
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Macharia-Mokobi, Elizabeth; Pfumorodze, Jimcall
(Juta Law, 2013)
Botswana's Refugee (Recognition and Control) Act has been in force since 1967. It was promulgated before Botswana became a state party to the UN Refugee Convention and its Protocol and before its accession to the OAU Refugee ...
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Allain, Jean; O'Shea, Andreas
(Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002-02)
Within the domain of respect for human and peoples’ rights by African states
there has been, until recently, little unity of purpose. The common standards
that African states have maintained in their laws and practices ...
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Heyns, C.H. (Christof H.); Baimu, Evarist; Killander, Magnus
(Duncker & Humblot, 2003)
The article examines the objectives and institutional structure of the African Union (AU) in the light of the experiences of its predecessor the Organization of African Unity (OAU) as well as the African Economic Community ...
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Jegede, Ademola Oluborode
(Juta Law, 2009)
This article focuses on the establishment of the Panel of the Wise in the African
Union peace and security architecture. It examines the basis, design
and role of the Panel, and explores the possibilities that can be ...
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Geldenhuys, Megan; Kaufulu, Chisomo G.; Nabaneh, Satang; Stefiszyn, Karen
(Juta Law, 2014)
Articles 14(1)(d) and (e) of the Protocol to the African Charter on Human
and Peoples’ Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa specifically provide
for women’s sexual and reproductive health rights in the context of HIV. ...
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Fombad, Charles Manga
(Sage, 2014)
Debates and discussions about the African renaissance and the Africanisation of universities have raged for
decades. The goal of developing an emancipatory Afrocentric system that frees African education from the
continuous ...
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Viljoen, Frans; Abebe, Adem Kassie
(Cambridge University Press, 2014-02-11)
A solid stream of cases have been submitted to the quasi-judicial and judicial treaty
monitoring bodies making up the African regional human rights system, namely the
African Commission, the African Children’s Rights ...
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Budoo, Ashwanee
(Pretoria University Law Press, 2018)
The Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the
Rights of Women in Africa was adopted under article 66 of the African
Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights to supplement the provisions on
women’s ...
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Mujuzi, Jamil Ddamulira
(Juta Law, 2006)
While the right to freedom from torture is one of the few non-derogable rights, it is also one of the rights commonly violated in Africa. The right to freedom from torture is protected under article 5 of the African Charter. ...
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Allain, Jean
(Addleton Academic Publishers, 2014)
Are anarchy and the law antithetical? Not so, as for more than 350 years international law has governed a legal order based on anarchy; wherein no central authority exists and law functions not on the basis of coercion but ...
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Nyachae, Jacinta; Ogendi, Paul Omondi
(Community Law Centre, University of the Western Cape, 2012)
On April 20, 2012, the Kenyan High Court
delivered a ground-breaking decision that
will, inter alia, enhance national, regional and
international efforts aimed at improving access
to affordable and essential medicines, ...
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Miamingi, Alina-Ramona
(Pretoria University Law Press, 2020)
This article argues that article 30(d) of the African Charter
on the Rights and Welfare of the Child in fact, in some instances,
may impede the actualisation of the best interests of the children of
incarcerated mothers ...
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Viljoen, Frans; Orago, Nicholas W.
(Faculty of Law, North West University, 2014)
No abstract available.